First prize.
By identifying the natural and infrastructural strands that run from one side to the other of the frontier, the proposal stems from reinforcing the urban corridors to improve the connectivity between the Twin-Town through two distinctive elements: a reinvented urban axis that relates main public spaces; the recovering of the creek area as a central Park, connecting to the Pedele-Pedeli River as well as improving the accessibility between both margins of the stream.

TRENCIN IS GREEN. TRENCIN IS URBAN. In a territorial scale, Brenzina and the river are big green structures. In a domestic scale, the city shows a continuum peppered of gardens and greens mixed in the urban tissue. We are interested by the domestic space configuration and visuals of the historical city which are made by the rythms of traditional plots, the irregularity of heights, the proportion of private and public space and the flexibility of the tissue. We value strolling through narrow streets and the surprise effect when arriving at a open public space. The reinterpretation of the grain and the traditional plot allows thinking about a domestic grid but also in an urban reference.

The urban collage: The contemporary city had led to an a group of monofunctional and isolated spaces. The suburbs of Vienna is a city collage of engrossed fragments of residential ,offices, farmland packages, and large facilities have been built in pieces, generating a kind of urban continuity within the logic of sprawl.

Today, the neighborhood’s relationship with the rail infrastructure produces the biggest urban problem. The geometry and dimensions of this axis result in a formal element impossible to ignore.The vision of Vauxhall that we present seizes the opportunity to re-think and recover the rail tracks as the organizer of a vibrant new referent public space. Beyond solving the city’s contact with the infrastructure, we want to emphasize the different urban grids, the value of existing green spaces and unique buildings that are part of the historical memory of the neighbourhood.

Short-listed.
The Latrobe valley is a constant changing territory due to its own mining activity. These dynamics will continue in the future. The mining industry has been the reason for the region’s development and it will be the opportunity to take up on the construction of the new territorial city.

The transformation of large areas of land in metropolitan core areas managed by a single action.The new La Carlota’s Park presents one of these occasions and means the provision on over 100ha to the city public spaces network. The proposal seeks a strategic debate on how to make city detecting where the project is truly required.

First prize.
The new plazas of Chimalhuacán are strategically implemented onto the territory to structure and assure the minimum amenities for each neighbourhood: rainwater control and treatment, basic supplies, sewerage, mobility, collection of waste materials, facilities and public spaces with green areas.

First prize.
“isLand” serves as a metaphor to suggest a new way of organizing the lifestyle of Puerto Saavedra. The proposal is the vision that integrates town and landscape in a single entity projected from the use of the logic of territory and the nature’s power as an energy which constructor of this new identity.

Recoleta square is a place with its own identity. A careful reading of the place acknowledges its DOUBLE SCALE status. The “red ribbon” is a new technological device designed as module which contains all the necessary elements of the public space such as urban furniture, lighting and advertising posters. Besides, there is also a pergola area to place a craft market and a vegetal wall that provides protection from traffic noise.

Milefuilles presents a new look at the territory understanding the role of all the layers and inter-layers as spaces of opportunity to recover the territorial unit vision.The division in vegetation and landscape layers is a self-condition of the Vall Aran territory. This stratification responses to the traditional way of urban growths and economical activities development. As a result, the proposal is an exploitation of the resources adapted to the altitude and according to the productive cycle development.

Short-listed.
Almajarra’s strategy consists in recovering of the historic image walkway, reinforcing the role of the trees and the public use of the street too. To achieve this objective, it is completely necessary to redistribute and/or to move the private vehicles. So the project proposal is to develop a new path parallel to the A-30.

Despite the usual attitude of importing identities from star architectures or fragmentary interventions which are often self-absorbed projects, this is a proposal of building a new urban façade on the Ibaizabal river recovering its own identity according to a reinterpretation of its own properties. One of these it’s the big dimension of the infraestructural pieces that configures the actual site.

In the ancient cities, the agora was a reference for its inhabitants. It was a meeting place where multiple activities took place an all in tune with its surrounding landscape. Many times, the agora was located in the geographical highest point because its condition of open space and dominant views. Besides, the integration of the civic buildings with the landscape offered a tension in the space that was of an important relevance for the collective society. The tops of the city should be collective places!